 | Charles Henry Timperley - Book industries and trade - 1845 - 234 pages
...whole tenor of his existence was a perpetual lecture against the idle, the extravagant, and the proud. THE BODY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, PRINTER, (LIKE THE COVER OF AN OLD BOOK, ITS CONTENTS WORN OUT, AND STRIPT OF ITS LETTERING AND GILDING,) LIES HERE FOOD FOR WORMS. YET THE... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1846 - 702 pages
...And with every note is given, Love, if you'd be loved again. EDWIN HOUGHTS— RAVE AND EPITAPH.— The body of Benjamin Franklin, printer (like the cover of an old book ; its contents torn out, and stripped of its lettering and gilding) , lies here, food for worms ; yet... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 320 pages
...these diseases. The following epitaph on himself, was written by him many years previous to his death : THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old hook, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet... | |
 | Baptists - 1744 - 726 pages
...without secret prayer. DE. FRANKLIN'S EPITAPH — {Written by himself some years before his death.) — The body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer — like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and bereft of its lettering and gilding — lies here, food for worms ; yet... | |
 | 1850 - 534 pages
...in the immortality of the soul is inconsistent with a knowledge and love of natural science : — ' The body of Benjamin Franklin, printer (like the cover of an old book with its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding), lies here food for worms : .... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1850 - 794 pages
...in the immortality of the soul is iuconsistent with a knowledge and love of natural science : — ' The body of Benjamin Franklin, printer (like the cover of an old book with its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding), lies here food for wonus : yet... | |
 | Erastus Darrow - 1850 - 104 pages
...but been disunited from his eternal part, and was laid to rest beneath this self-written epitaph : The Body Of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (Like the cover of an old book, Its contents* torn out, And stripped of its lettering and gilding,) Lies here, food for worms : But... | |
 | Charles N. Baldwin - Biography - 1850 - 458 pages
...epitaph, which he had composed for himself some years before, might be inscribed on hia ombstoue : «The body of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gliding) lies here food for worms; " yet the... | |
 | F. W. Bogen - Germans - 1851 - 188 pages
...his life. The following epitaph4 on himself, was written by him many years previous to his death : THE BODY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, PRINTER, (LIKE THE COVER* OF AN OLD BOOK, ITS CONTENTS TORN OUT, AND STRIPT1 OF ITS LETTERING AND GILDING,) LIES HERE, FOOD FOR WORMS, YET THE... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1852 - 948 pages
...as 1727, when Franklin was only twenty-two years of age, he wrote the following epitaph for himself: The Body of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, Like the cover of an old Book. Its contents torn out (And stripped of its lettering and gilding), Lies here, food for worms. But the... | |
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THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in... 
